#prophecy

Play to your strengths.” “I haven’t got any,” said Harry, before he could stop himself. “Excuse me,” growled Moody, “you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#education #encouragement #exhortation #prophecy #education

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source: A Green Desert Father} ↗

— Richard Mc Sweeney

#esoteric #fashion #freedom-of-thought #ireland #irish-poet

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#make #men #object #poetry #prophecy

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#little #mastered #much #next #next year

If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream? ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fate #predestination #prophecy #sorcery #dreams

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

#generally #honest #however #poor #poor substitute

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. ↗

— George Gissing

#event #familiar #persistent #prophecy #way

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now. ↗

— Prince

#now #prophecy

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us. ↗

— James Robertson

#history #insight #life #mankind #past

If a man's kiss burns like fire, his love will be true, but if his kiss burns like ice...his love will bring pain and ruin. ↗

— Miriam Minger

#prophecy #love